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Millwright salary in Monroe, LA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Millwrights in the Monroe, LA area earn a median of $53,290 a year, or $25.62 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $75,010. Statewide, millwrights earn a median of $66,080; Monroe is 19% below it.

Median yearly pay$53,290
Bottom 10% under$43,290Top 10% over$75,010
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$20.81/hr
Jobs in this area
60
After cost of living
$63,750
Median hourly pay
$25.62/hr
vs U.S. median
−19%
vs Louisiana median
−19%
Mean (average) pay
$55,080 a year · $26.48 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 33740, Monroe, LA). Excludes self-employed millwrights. Cost of living: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024. *Starting pay is estimated from the 10th percentile; BLS does not report pay by license level.

Pay by percentile

What millwrights in Monroe, LA earn at each point of the pay range, May 2025: 10% earn less than the 10th percentile, half earn less than the median, and 10% earn more than the 90th.

PercentileHourlyYearly
10th percentile$20.81$43,290
25th percentile$23.00$47,840
Median (50th)$25.62$53,290
75th percentile$28.00$58,240
90th percentile$36.06$75,010

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.

How Monroe, LA compares

  • Monroe has the lowest millwright median of the 4 Louisiana metro areas with published pay.
  • Millwrights are more concentrated in the Monroe area than nationally: 0.7 of every 1,000 jobs, 2.6 times the U.S. share.

Other Louisiana metro areas

Other trades in Monroe, LA

Questions

Do millwrights make more in Monroe or Baton Rouge?
Baton Rouge pays more: the median is $53,290 in Monroe and $76,610 in Baton Rouge, a 30% difference.

About this data

Wages are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey for May 2025, occupation 49-9044 (Millwrights), area code 33740 (Monroe, LA). BLS counts wage and salary workers only, so self-employed millwrights and business owners aren't included. The cost-of-living figure divides the median by the Bureau of Economic Analysis Regional Price Parity for 2024 (83.6, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures